Older beetle parents 'less flexible'
Older parents are less flexible when it comes to raising their offspring, according to a new study of beetles.
Plants & Animals
Mar 6, 2020
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News tagged with parental care
Researcher discovers earliest fossil evidence of parental behavior
A team led by Carleton University's Hillary Maddin has discovered the earliest fossil evidence of parental care. The fossil predates the previous oldest record of this behavior by 40 million years and is featured in an article ...
Archaeology
Dec 24, 2019
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Inequity takes a toll on your gut microbes, too
People worry about having access to clean water, power, health care and healthy foods because they are essential for survival. But do they ever think about their access to microbes?
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 4, 2019
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Reef fish caring for their young are taken advantage of by other fish
Scroungers and parasites seem to show up in nature wherever life produces something useful, and that includes parental care. Among birds, for example, the practice of laying eggs in other birds' nests is surprisingly common.
Ecology
Oct 9, 2019
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Dinosaur egg bonanza gives vital clues about prehistoric parenting
Perhaps the most amazing thing about fossils is that they don't just show us what extinct animals looked like, they can also reveal how those animals lived. Even a fossilized dinosaur egg can provide a wealth of clues about ...
Archaeology
Aug 7, 2019
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How puffins catch food outside the breeding season
Little is known about how seabirds catch their food outside the breeding season but using modern technology, researchers at the University of Liverpool and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology have gained new insight into their ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 10, 2019
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The conspicuous absence of women in India's labour force
India's rapid economic growth has been accompanied by falling fertility rates and higher educational attainment among women. These advances often lead to an increase in women entering the labour force, but there has been ...
Social Sciences
May 15, 2019
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Evolution from water to land led to better parenting
The evolution of aquatic creatures to start living on land made them into more attentive parents, says new research on frogs led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath.
Plants & Animals
Apr 10, 2019
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Single mothers spend more on children's health in hard times
When money is tight, single mothers spend more of their health care dollars on their children than themselves, while two-parent families are less likely to make changes, according to a Rutgers study.
Economics & Business
Feb 21, 2019
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Consumer-led research gives a voice to disadvantaged
In the last week of August 2018, the Australian Government's Productivity Commission released its "Rising inequality? A stocktake of the evidence" research paper. Its conclusion: "Over nearly three decades, inequality has ...
Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2019
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